Nelson Mandela Research Paper
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Nelson Mandela Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism and antiapartheid. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, …show more content…
He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. Hawking's achievements were made despite the increasing paralysis caused by the ALS. By 1974, he was unable to feed himself or get out of bed. His speech became slurred so that he could only be understood by people who knew him well. In 1985, he caught pneumonia and had to have a tracheotomy, which made him unable to speak at all. Although having been afflicted by these enormous and unbelievable diseases and misery, Hawking was not beaten. He is a world-renowned theoretical physicist whose scientific career spans over 40 years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Science. On August 12, 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. …show more content…
Most importantly, he rejected to follow the rules docilely and appeared a sharp contrast with the conventional painting style. He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational fashion. One of his previous mentors who had expected him to be a new rising star in European art became disappointed due to his attitude towards the traditional art. Some of Dali’s bosom friends even discouraged him from being so unorthodox in order to chime in with the taste of the mainstream and to keep the pot boiling, but Dali refuse that all and continued to bring up images from his subconscious mind. He induced hallucinatory states in himself by a process he described as “paranoiac critical”. Once Dali hit on this method, his painting style matured with extraordinary rapidly, and from 1929 to 1937 he produced the painting that made him the world’s best-known artist.
Great Souls
Nelson Mandela Mandela, the South African black political leader and former president, was awarded 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to antiracism and antiapartheid. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, …show more content…
He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. Hawking's achievements were made despite the increasing paralysis caused by the ALS. By 1974, he was unable to feed himself or get out of bed. His speech became slurred so that he could only be understood by people who knew him well. In 1985, he caught pneumonia and had to have a tracheotomy, which made him unable to speak at all. Although having been afflicted by these enormous and unbelievable diseases and misery, Hawking was not beaten. He is a world-renowned theoretical physicist whose scientific career spans over 40 years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Science. On August 12, 2009, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. …show more content…
Most importantly, he rejected to follow the rules docilely and appeared a sharp contrast with the conventional painting style. He depicted a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed, deformed, or otherwise metamorphosed in a bizarre and irrational fashion. One of his previous mentors who had expected him to be a new rising star in European art became disappointed due to his attitude towards the traditional art. Some of Dali’s bosom friends even discouraged him from being so unorthodox in order to chime in with the taste of the mainstream and to keep the pot boiling, but Dali refuse that all and continued to bring up images from his subconscious mind. He induced hallucinatory states in himself by a process he described as “paranoiac critical”. Once Dali hit on this method, his painting style matured with extraordinary rapidly, and from 1929 to 1937 he produced the painting that made him the world’s best-known artist.